In other Billie Joe news, the frontman recently told Kerrang! that he’d written six new songs in lockdown, and hopes to get together in the studio with bassist Mike Dirnt, drummer Tré Cool and Father Of All… producer Butch Walker when all of this is over.
“I’ve been writing a lot of music, and I had all these melodies in my head, so I wrote, like, six songs since all of this has been going on,” he said. “I don’t know when I can get together with Mike and Tré, but I told them to make sure that they’re quarantined for now, and then I hope down the road we can get back in the studio with Butch Walker.”
He also told James Corden in April that he's been staying in touch with his bandmates during this time, revealing, “Mike [Dirnt] is basically becoming like a farmer right now – he’s been growing his own vegetables. But he’s also organising his record collection. And then Tré [Cool] has just been hanging out with his wife Sara and their baby Mickey, and trying to play drums as much as he can.
“We were all ready to start going on tour, and we had to postpone a bunch of dates,” he continued. “Everyone was ready to go on tour and play together again, but it just kinda got sidelined for now.”
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